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  title info:
    title: Inhospitable world
    sub title: cinema in the time of the anthropocene
  name:
    name part: Fay, Jennifer
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource
  abstract: In recent years, environmental and human rights advocates have suggested that we have entered the first new geological epoch since the end of the ice age: the Anthropocene. In this new epoch, humans have come to reshape unwittingly both the climate and natural world; humankind has caused mass extinctions of plant and animal species, polluted the oceans, and irreversibly altered the atmosphere. Ironically, our efforts to make the planet more hospitable to ourselves seem to be driving us toward our inevitable extinction. A force of nature, humanity is now decentered as the agent of history. As Jennifer Fay argues, this new situation is to geological science what cinema has always been to human culture. Film, like the Anthropocene, is a product of the industrial revolution, but arises out of a desire to preserve life and master time and space. It also calls for the creation of artificial worlds, unnatural weather, and deadly environments for entertainment, scientific study, and devising military strategy. Filmmaking stages, quite literally, the process by which worlds and weather come into being and meaning, and it mimics the forces that are driving this new planetary inhospitality. Cinema, in other words, provides an image of "nature" in the age of its mechanical reproducability. Fay argues that cinema exemplifies the philosophical, political, and perhaps even logistical processes by which we can adapt to these forces and also imagine a world without humans in it. Whereas standard ecological criticism attends to the environmental crisis as an unraveling of our natural state, this book looks to film (from Buster Keaton, to Jia Zhangke, to films of atomic testing and early polar exploration) to consider how it reflects upon the creation and destruction of human environments. What are the implications of ecological inhospitality? What role might cinema and media theory play in challenging our presumed right to occupy and populate the world? As an art form, film enjoys a …
  table of contents: Cover; Half title; InhospitableÂWorld; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: On LocationÂ.Â.Â.; 1. Buster Keatonâ#x80;#x99;s Climate Change; 2. Nuclear Conditioning; 3. The Ecologies of Film Noir; Part II: .Â.Â.Âat the End of the World; 4. Still Life; 5. Antarctica and Siegfried Kracauerâ#x80;#x99;s Extraterrestrial Film Theory; Conclusion:ÂThe Epoch and the Archive; Notes; Bibliography; Index
  note: Jennifer Fay.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Nature in motion pictures
  subject:
    topic: Geology, Stratigraphic
    temporal: Anthropocene
  subject:
    topic: Environmentalism in motion pictures
  subject:
    topic: Ecology in motion pictures
  subject:
    topic: Nature au cinéma
  subject:
    topic: Anthropocène
  subject:
    topic: Environnementalisme au cinéma
  subject:
    topic: Holocene
  subject:
    topic: PERFORMING ARTS
    topic: Reference
  subject:
    topic: Ecology in motion pictures
  subject:
    topic: Environmentalism in motion pictures
  subject:
    topic: Geology, Stratigraphic
  subject:
    topic: Nature in motion pictures
  classification: PN1995.9.N38
  classification: 791.43/66
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    title info:
      title: Inhospitable world
    name:
      name part: Fay, Jennifer.
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2018]
    identifier: (OCoLC)1016935065
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    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 180220
    record change date: 20260319164722.0
    record identifier: in00005715614
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng